Saturday, November 4, 2017

IAN FLEMING Vintage Classic hardcovers released

Three new "Vintage Classic" hardcover editions of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, Live and Let Die and Goldfinger have been released in the UK.  The books sport beautiful original cover art and endpapers by Levente Szabo, and include never-before-seen material from the Ian Fleming and Jonathan Cape archives, including letters, documents and photographs. Each book also has an introduction by writer, flim-maker and James Bond expert John Cork.


Purchase from Amazon.co.uk: Casino Royale | Live and Let Die | Goldfinger.
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6 comments:

  1. night personNovember 4, 2017 at 10:28 AM

    Hi John! What can you tell us about the archive material included? While these look splendid, I have too many Fleming books and am trying to be a little more frugal. Are these must own?

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    1. John CoxNovember 19, 2017 at 9:18 AM

      The John Cork introductions are superb. Far and away the best introductions ever written for the Bond books. Extra material is also nice. I'm happy to have these as my new reading copies.

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  2. WindsweptNovember 5, 2017 at 1:05 AM

    I think I prefer the Folio editions.
    The art work by Fay Dalton makes them really quite uniqe.

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  3. JNovember 7, 2017 at 6:32 PM

    I shall be in London next week, and can look these over; I shall probably buy the CASINO ROYALE in any event...

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    1. JNovember 15, 2017 at 9:55 PM

      If you've seen the last series of Rex Stout/Nero Wolfe paperbacks, these are very similar, with letters and notes from the time of original publication (about 8-10 pages worth). LIVE AND LET DIE collates the original British and American texts for a "new" version of the novel, not published before in the U.K.

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  4. LightspeedDecember 8, 2018 at 7:30 AM

    Will they release the rest the set in these hardcover editions?

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